L? Anh S?n a ?crit : > I had some documents use font vnHelv2, but in ubuntu not had this font. > I want install this font to my computer. For your information all TCVN .vn* fonts have a huge problem in their encoding specification: they "claim" to be encoded as CP1252 hence they really are using TCVN 5712-3.
People who created those fonts did that (if I understood correctly) to allow their use in a western version of MS-Windows/MS-Office. Now, it works in Windows, because Windows mainly care about the font name and do not really check (I assume) the encoding information. But it doesn't work in real good OS (ahem ;-) ) like GNU/Linux that do care a lot about encoding information. If you install .vn* fonts on GNU/Linux, they may be used then when western fonts are needed, because they claim to be western fonts. The result is that you will see strange characters when visiting western websites. And if we ever wanted to change this "claim", we would end by not beeing able to display old document using those fonts, because those "need" to use CP1252 "encoded" fonts instead of TCVN 5712-3. So, to put a conclusion to this (little) explanation, you'd better convert every old document to Unicode to be able to use them correctly. Instead of installing bad old (not unicode) fonts that will just make a mess in your futur web browsing, you should install the "ovniconv" utility to help converting these documents to Unicode. This utility is available as a standard Debian/Ubuntu package, easy to install, from the HanoiLUG repository: http://www.hanoilug.org/dokuwiki/soft:apt:hanoilug Configure this repository in your Ubuntu system, then install the "ovniconv" package and take a look at the documentation in: /usr/share/doc/ovniconv/README.txt Best regards, J.C. -- Jean Christophe "????" ANDR? ? ? ? Responsable technique r?gional Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) ? ? ? http://www.asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) ? ? ? http://www.auf.org/ Adresse postale : AUF, 21 L? Th?nh T?ng, T.T. Ho?n Ki?m, H? N?i, Vi?t Nam T?l. : +84 4 9331108 ? Fax : +84 4 8247383 ? Cellul. : +84 91 3248747 ? Note personnelle: merci d'?viter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ? ? ou Word, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ? -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe non texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Taille: 252 octets Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20080901/0825a4e2/attachment.pgp
